Twilight of Humanity: German Expressionist Poetry in English
Oliver SheppardTwilight of Humanity—a journey through the poetry of German Expressionism in English, named for 1919's monumental Menschheitsdämmerung anthology of the movement's greatest poets. Besides poetry, we post & discuss Expressionist cinema & art, Weimar, &c.
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Eight German Horror Poems for Halloween
German Expressionism invented modern cinematic horror. Here are some of the poems that also came from the movement.
Note: My third poetry collection, The Funeral Colony, was recently published. I feel compelled to plug it on m...
"Propaganda For Suicide": The Shocking Poems of Alfred Lichtenstein
“Apocalyptic Landscape,” by Ludwig Meidner, 1913.
In 1931, Frankfurt School philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote that the poetry of Alfred Lichtenstein was “propaganda for suicide.” Benjamin didn’t mean this comment as a slight; in fact, Benj...
"The Automaton," by Hermann Kasack (1916)
Der Maschinenmensch, the “False Maria” robot played by Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis of 1927.
The other day I was poring over some scanned issues of the early 20th-century German literary journal DIE AKTION and in its pages I wa...
"Dark Autumn Returns," by Georg Trakl (1914)
The following poem is the seventh of ten poems by Georg Trakl to appear in Twilight of Humanity, the massive 1919 anthology of German Expressionist poetry after which this Substack is named. I’ve taken exactly two liberties with this poem’s...
"The Ride," by Franz Werfel (1919)
Werfel’s likeness on the Franz Werfel Monument in Vienna, Austria, erected in 1998.
Of all the poets that appear in the massive 1919 Twilight of Humanity (“Menschheitsdämmerung”) anthology of German Expressionist poetry—the volume after wh...
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Writer/poet from Nashville, TN. Now living, dying, writing in Texas. Finalist for Elgin Award for Book-Length Poetry Collection & Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement In A Poetry Collection. Exit-device enthusiast. Apostle of the Archatron.
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